Still Air Workstation — 36" | Two-Port Dead Air Box for Production Transfers

Production width, with 8" ports so you are not working elbows-in

The 24" box handles a two-plate session. This one is for people doing it all day — a grow doing weekly transfers, a tissue culture operation running trays, a lab that needs two people's worth of throughput out of one station. Three feet of width, 8" arm ports, and enough height to stand a rack of tubes up.

Terra Universal's comparable single-station acrylic glovebox lists at $1,602 and arrives bonded and freight-shipped. Ours flat-packs. That is the whole difference in price.

How a still air box actually works

It does not filter. It eliminates air movement. Airborne spores settle out of still air within a minute or two of closing the box. A rigid, closed enclosure with arm ports stops your body plume and room drafts from carrying them onto open plates while you work. Rigidity is the point — a flexing tote pumps air every time you lean on it.

Specification

• ✅ External 36" W × 24" D × 24" H — room for a tray, a rack and a burner without stacking
• ✅ Polycarbonate, not acrylic. See the material note below
• ✅ Two 8" gasketed arm ports in the front panel — wider spacing, full forearm clearance
• ✅ Lift-off top for full-width loading and wipe-down
• ✅ Coved deck with a wipe-clean floor and no trap corners
• ✅ Oversized, chamfered fastener holes and compression gasketing at every joint
• ✅ Flat-packed. Assembly is 60–120 minutes with the included hardware

Why polycarbonate, and why it matters more than the price

Your workflow is 70% isopropyl on every surface, several times a session. Stressed acrylic crazes under IPA, and the cracks start at bolt holes and bracket joints — exactly where a panel-and-bracket design puts stress. We build the wetted panels in polycarbonate, oversize and chamfer every fastener hole, and use compression gaskets rather than tight bolts. It costs us more and it is the difference between a box that lasts and one that spiderwebs in a year.

Straight talk about what this is not

This is a dead air box — a still air workstation. It is not a biosafety cabinet. BSCs require NSF/ANSI 49 certification, HEPA filtration and validated airflow. We carry none of those and make no sterility, air-change or contamination-rate claims. Work that needs containment rather than exclusion needs a certified BSC, and we will say so.

Options

A HEPA blower kit converts this to a laminar-flow station; a UV-C timer kit is available, though ask us about panel life before you commit to one. Both are quoted separately — tell us which way you are going.

Built in Rocklin, California. Lead time on standard kits is 10 business days or less. One-year warranty, 30-day returns, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.